Julie Christie

Julie Christie broke through in Billy Liar in 1963, then hit international range two years later: Darling won her the Academy Award and BAFTA, and Doctor Zhivago — the eighth highest-grossing film ever when adjusted for inflation — made her inescapable. The late sixties brought Fahrenheit 451, Far from the Madding Crowd, Petulia. The seventies: McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Don't Look Now, Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, another Oscar nomination. She pulled back from the center but never stopped: a third nomination for Afterglow in 1997, a fourth for Away from Her in 2007. Six of her films landed in the BFI…